Encinitas fatality identified

The 23-year-old man killed Thursday night in a three-vehicle collision on Leucadia Boulevard was a student from Portugal, the county Medical Examiner reported Sunday.

Joao Rocadas, who lived in Carlsbad, was traveling eastbound on Leucadia at about 7:30 p.m. when for unknown reasons his Chrysler Sebring crossed the center divider and struck a westbound Chevrolet pickup truck head-on. The pickup then collided with another truck. The Chevrolet driver was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not believed by authorities to be life-threatening.

Rocadas reportedly came to California about three weeks ago to attend the Golf Academy of America in Carlsbad.